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His name was George Antheil (1900-1959, see the newsletter of 8 June 2011), and the piece is his Ballet pour instruments mécaniques et percussion more commonly known as Ballet Mécanique (1925). Written while he was living in Paris, it was to accompany a Dadaist film of the same name, and is by today's standards a sonic happening.
Nov 9, 2009 · «Ballet Mécanique». Music for 4 Pianos and Percussions. Alexey Luybimov's project.George Antheil - Ballet Mécanique (1924, revised 1952-53). Alexey Luybimov,...
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We thank you! Film is by nature a collaborative medium, and certainly one of the strangest and most interesting cinematic collaborations of all time has to be the 1924 avant-garde film Ballet Mécanique, which brought together the modernist luminaries Fernand Léger, Ezra Pound, Man Ray and George Antheil. Open Culture, openculture.com.
Jun 9, 2008 · The American composer George Antheil, the Bad Boy of Music, as he titled his 1945 autobiography, is best known for a jackhammer of a piece he wrote in Paris in his mid-20s, “Ballet Mécanique.”
George Antheil (190-1959): Ballet Mécanique, for pianos, percussion, electric buzzers and airplane propellers (1926, versione revisionato 1953).Philadelphia ...
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Ballet Mécanique (1924), the original version of which we propose to re-enact (slightly revamped), was an attempt by the American composer George Antheil, the painter Fernand Léger, and the director Dudley Murphy to offer a multimedia experience before there was even a name for it. In common with Edgar Varèse – although he was the author ...
Mechanical Magic. Ballet Mécanique was the creation of a brash young American composer in Paris named George Antheil in 1924. It called for two pianists, three xylophones, four bass drums, a tam-tam, a siren, seven or so electric bells, three aeroplane propellors, and 16 synchronised player pianos.
